A Good Man Is Hard to Find Critical Essay

A Good Man Is Hard to Find Critical Essay

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  • Date Submitted: 02/28/2009 10:25 AM
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A Good Man Is Hard to find critical essay
There are varying opinions of the underlying meaning in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find." In my opinion one of the story’s main points was the transformation of character and actions due to violence. When the family was confronted by the Misfit, the grandmother went through a character change. Since the start of the story she was portrayed as a selfish woman. Through out the vacation she kept talking about what she did and wanted to do for example when the family was going to Florida, she wanted to visit her friends in Tennessee. “She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind.” (O’Connor 649 ). During the drive, she told the children an interesting story about a treasure without realizing that that she had the wrong place in mind. I think that it was the grandmother’s fault the family got into that tragedy. If she would not have been such an over confident, selfish woman they would have had a good vacation. More importantly she ties to save her own life by talking to the Misfit and when she realized that she is surely going to be killed she got desperate and practically asked Misfit to show mercy by touching him. The change in her character does not come until she realizes that she did not live a good life. She got desperate and wanted another chance to live her life as a good Christian woman. O’Conner shows the desperation its peak by writing, “You've got that the grandmother and family will meet their end through the hands of some stranger. I got that though from the group discussion. We also discussed the effects of violence on a person’s actions and even ability to think. We talked about my opinion and my group members agreed that grandmother did went through a character change when she sees that there is not way out of that mess.
Carola M. Kaplan’s critical essay regarding violence in “A Good Man is Hard to Find...

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